BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

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Bach on the Organ/David Briggs
Given the participation of such a fine player as David Briggs, it was a pity that there was not more of an opportunity to hear other examples of ‘original’ Bach...
The Brandenburg Concertos/Gardiner
Bach Day at the Proms got underway in the best possible fashion with the Brandenburg Concertos, split between two concerts (the first two Proms Saturday Matinees of this season) rather...
Verdi Dallapiccola Bruch Schumann
It’s a testament to the enduring popularity of Max Bruch’s G minor Violin Concerto that you can fill the Royal Albert Hall with a Prom including a major work by...
BBCSO/Bringuier Nelson Freire
If we count Chopin as being French – his father was a Frenchman who went to Poland – then this Prom conducted Lionel Bringuier was an all-French affair. Topped and...
Music of the Spheres
Thomas Dausgaard’s Prom-visits with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra have never lacked for innovation or ambition, though here he took these to new heights with a programme as unlikely as...
Schreker, Korngold & Mahler/Metzmacher
This concert was of especial interest in its marking Ingo Metzmacher’s final appearance as Principal Conductor of Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and with a programme as ambitious as any during the...
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BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy
It was simply the word “Iraq” in Ilham Al Madfai’s introduction to his first song “Khuttar” that caused the first whoops and cheers from the well-heeled crowd, predominantly Iraqi exiles....
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European Union Youth Orchestra
The European Union Youth Orchestra arrived without the indisposed Sir Colin Davis. In his stead Matthias Bamert was a steady pair of hands, and rather more in the Berlioz, but...
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Musica ad Rhenum – Some of the Bachs
The Amsterdam-based Musica ad Rhenum gave sparkling performances of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and two of his sons, the group displaying its considerable talents. Johann Sebastian’s Trio Sonata in...
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Messiaen & Mozart … Parry & Brahms
Sir Andrew Davis’s conducting of Un sourire – which Messiaen composed in 1989 for the 200th-anniversary of Mozart’s death (1991) – made an appropriate as well as affecting opening to...
BBCSC, London Brass, O Duo – Wilful Chants
The BBC Symphony Chorus is more often than not heard performing with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, but was here given the chance to take centre-stage in a demanding and well-contrasted...
National Youth Orchestra of GB – Fantasias
This proved a well-planned ‘fantasy’ Proms concert and generally a splendid showcase for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Semyon Bychkov – a genial, authoritative and lucid conductor –...
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Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
A family bereavement prevented George Benjamin from conducting this late-night BBC Prom, but Ilan Volkov was available to direct this well-balanced programme of both potential and established modern classics. Oliver...
Paul Lewis Beethoven (3) [Hallé/Elder]
Three days after Dynamic Triptych, it was gratifying to record another festival first for John Foulds in this performance of April – England. Originally written in 1926 as a piano...
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World Orchestra for Peace/Gergiev – Mahler
On the 50th anniversary of the United Nations in 1995, Sir Georg Solti (1912-97) founded the World Orchestra for Peace, its players drawn from numerous orchestras, many of them concertmasters...